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"I don't mean that," said Joe Wynbrook, settling himself comfortably back in his chair; "it's the family hearth I'm talkin' of. The soothin' influence, ye know the tidiness of the women folks."
I knowed it made folks patienter an' commonsenser an' weather-wiser an' cuter gen'ally; gin 'em more fac'lty than all the school larnin' in creation. I knowed it was more fillin' than vittles, more rousin' than whisky, more soothin' than lodlum. I knowed it cooled ye off when ye was het, an' het ye when ye was cold. I knowed all that, o' course any fool knows it. But will ye b'l'eve it?
"Well, I have. Figgered a heap." "Any results, Scattergood?" "Some some." "What be they?" Scattergood's eyes twinkled in the darkness. "I got it all figgered out," he said, "that them young folks needs a dose of soothin' syrup." "I want to know," said the postmaster, breathlessly and with bewilderment. "Soothin' syrup! I swan to man!... Hain't been out in the heat, have you, Scattergood?"
"It was," she had explained, "pow'ful soothin', and solitary." She entered the house a rude, square building of unpainted boards containing a sitting-room, a kitchen, and two bedrooms.
Bob Ellins, you ought to know that I haven't the vaguest notion as to what funding is, never did, and at my time of life, Sir, I don't propose to learn!" "Of course, of course," says Mr. Robert, soothin'. "Quite unnecessary too. You are adequately and efficiently represented, Mr.
"If I tried to wash anywhere as was at all difficult I lost my grip on the hole an' the water went out with a swish as made Niagara look like a cow's tail afore I could possibly get in position again. I was n't more 'n halfway down my washin' when the awfulest noise begin outside an' the convention itself was babes sleepin' in soothin' syrup compared to whatever was goin' on in that next room.
Hubbs was No. 5 on the kindly deeds list that Pyramid Gordon had wished on Steele and me. We was to apply soothin' acts and financial balm to all the old grouches that Pyramid had left behind him, you remember, on a commission basis. Seems J. Bayard had been tracin' Hubbs up by mail for more'n a month, and at that it was just by chance one of his letters had been forwarded to the right place.
I stroked old Pluto's ears an' nose, all the time murmurin' to him, an' durin' the murmurin' I told the boys to file out. I never shame nobody in front of anybody if the' 's any other way round. Well, Pluto was drippin' with sweat an' havin' his bit ear rubbed was mighty soothin' to him.
"Isn't it wonderful here?" murmured Ruth. "It certainly is," agreed Russ who, with Paul, was rowing. "It sure is soothin'," said Jed. "Many a time when I ain't had no luck, and feel all tuckered out, I sneak off to a place like this and I feel jest glad to be alive." He put it crudely enough, but the others understood his homely philosophy.
What Ginger needs is a finishing school, and he's going to start right in attending one this very day. You watch my smoke." "Smoke!" chuckled Elfreda Briggs. "I don't mind it at all ordinarily, but I do wish that, when you get excited, you wouldn't insist on burning soft coal." "Say, Mister! Why don't yer feed the critter some soothin' syrup? They got it in the store there," urged a spectator.
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